THE EDINBURGH GAZETTE, NOVEMBE 2283 SHERIFF COURT, SCOTLAND. (5) All appeals to the Sheriff competent in SITTINGS AND DISTRIBUTION OF causes originating in the Sheriff Courts at Peebles and Linlithgow respectively shall BUSINESS. as hitherto be taken to and heard by the The Sheriff Courts (Peebles and Selkirk) and Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles. (Linlithgow and Falkirk) Amalgamation (6) The Sheriff-Substitute resident in Edin- Order, 1917. Dated 3ist October 1917. burgh who discharges the duties of Sheriff- Substitute at Haddington shall when his HEREAS there have been heretofore a duties at Haddington permit discharge such W salaried Sheriff-Substitute at Peebles duties of a Sheriff-Substitute at the Edin- in the Sheriffdom of the Lothians and burgh Sheriff Court, and that on such day Peebles, and a salaried Sheriff-Substitute or days of the week in session and during at Selkirk in the Sheriffdom of Roxburgh, vacation as the Sheriff of the Lothians and Berwick, and Selkirk, and it is expedient Peebles may from time to time appoint by that the duties heretofore discharged by an Order of Court. these two Sheriff-Substitutes should here- (7) This Order may be cited as the Sheriff after be discharged by one Sheriff-Sub- Courts (Peebles and Selkirk) and (Linlithgow stitute. and Falkirk) Amalgamation Order, 1917, And whereas there has been heretofore and shall come into effect on November 7th, a salaried Sheriff-Substitute at Edinburgh in 1917. the Sheriffdom of the Lothians and Peebles, who, in addition to discharging certain Given under my hand and seal at White- duties in the Sheriff Court at Edinburgh, hall this 3ist day of October 1917. discharged the duties of salaried Sheriff- Substitute at Linlithgow and at Haddington ROBERT MUNRO, • in the said Sheriffdom, and it is expedient His Majesty's Secretary for Scotland. that new arrangements should be prescribed' for the distribution of Sheriff Court business in the said Sheriffdom, and in the Sheriffdom of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan. Now therefore I, the undersigned, His DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS, Majesty's Secretary for Scotland, in exercise 1894 TO 1914. of the powers vested in me by the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act, 1907 (7 Edward RETURN of OUTBREAKS of SWINE 7, c. 51), do hereby prescribe and direct as FEVER in SCOTLAND for the Week ended follows :— 27th October 1917, distinguishing Counties (1) No appointment shall be made to the (including Burghs) :— office of salaried Sheriff-Substitute at Peebles now vacant, and the duties heretofore dis- Swine charged by the Sheriff-Substitute at Peebles Slaughtered shall be discharged by the Sheriff-Substitute COUHTY. Outbreaks as Diseased Confirmed. or as having at Selkirk. been Exposed (2) Such Sheriff-Substitute shall hold all to Infection. the Courts, civil and criminal, and generally shall discharge all the duties of a salaried No. No. Sheriff-Substitute at Peebles and Selkirk respectively at the times and places at Lanark . ... * 1 which they have hitherto been in use to be held and discharged, or at such other times TOTAL i _ as the Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles or the Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick, and Selkirk may after consultation together respectively appoint by an Order of Court. (3) The duties at the Sheriff Courts at The following Areas are now " Scheduled Linlithgow and Falkirk respectively hitherto Areas" for the purposes of the Swine Fever discharged by a Sheriff-Substitute of the (Regulation of Movement) Order of 1908 :— Lothians and Peebles resident in Edinburgh, Ayrshire, $c.—An Area comprising the counties but discharging the duties of Sheriff-Sub- of Ayr and Wigtown, and the burghs of Ayr, stitute both at Linlithgow and Haddington, Irvine, and Kilmarnock (l&th June 1917). and by the Sheriff-Substitute resident at Falkirk, shall in future be discharged by the Scotland.—An Area comprising Scotland (except salaried Sheriff-Substitute at Falkirk. the counties of Ayr and Wigtown, and, the 'burghs (4) Such Sheriff-Substitute shall hold all of Ayr, Irvine, and Kilmarnock) (16th June the Courts civil and criminal, and, generally, 1917). shall discharge all the duties of a salaried See also under Ayrshire, $c. Sheriff-Substitute at Linlithgow and Falkirk respectively at the times and places at which they have hitherto been in use to be held and discharged, or at such other times as the RETURN of OUTBREAKS of the under- Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles or the Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clack- mentioned DISEASES in SCOTLAND for mannan may after consultation together the Week ended 27th October 1917, dis- respectively appoint by an Order of Court. tinguishing Counties (including Burghs) :—.